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Not gay enough for softball team?
MSNBC ^ | April 21, 2010 1 hour, 17 minutes ago | msnbc.com

Posted on 04/21/2010 1:08:32 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy

SEATTLE - Three bisexual men have filed a federal lawsuit against a national gay-sports organization, claiming they were unfairly deemed not gay enough to play for a gay softball team during the Gay Softball World Series.

Steven Apilado, LaRon Charles and Jon Russ contend the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance discriminated against them during the Gay Softball World Series held in Seattle in August 2008.

The lawsuit, first reported by The Seattle Times and the Seattle Weekly, was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court. It accuses the alliance of violating Washington state laws barring discrimination.

According to the lawsuit, the three California men were on a softball team called D2 that advanced to the championship game in Seattle. During the game, play was stopped several times after the team that lost to them in the semifinals protested that D2 was in violation of a league rule permitting no more than "two heterosexual players" on a team.

Following the championship game, which D2 lost, Apilado, Charles and Russ were each separately called into a conference room in front of more than 25 people for a "hearing" by the Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance to determine whether each was "heterosexual" or "gay," the lawsuit says.

The men say they were forced to answer "highly personal and intrusive questions" about their sexual interests and private life, including whether they were "predominantly attracted to men" or "predominantly attracted to women."

At one point during the proceedings, the lawsuit alleges, one of the plaintiffs was told: "This is the Gay World Series, not the Bisexual World Series."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: discriminination; gay; gaysoftball; heterophobia; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; napl; notgayenoughtoplay; teabaggers
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1 posted on 04/21/2010 1:08:32 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: Ready4Freddy

How can someone be not gay enough? Kinda like being a little pregnant.


2 posted on 04/21/2010 1:10:00 PM PDT by camerongood210
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To: Ready4Freddy

Every baseball team needs a switch-hitter or two. Or three.


3 posted on 04/21/2010 1:10:36 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Ready4Freddy
The men say they were forced to answer "highly personal and intrusive questions"...

That must suck.

4 posted on 04/21/2010 1:11:15 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ready4Freddy

Is this for real????? I’m laughing so hard at the ridiculousness of it...discriminated against for not being gay enough....too funny.


5 posted on 04/21/2010 1:11:31 PM PDT by KEmom (Getting ready to hop on the Tea Party Express!!!)
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To: Ready4Freddy
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6 posted on 04/21/2010 1:11:35 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Ready4Freddy

I always thought that it was an asset to be a switch hitter in softball.


7 posted on 04/21/2010 1:11:55 PM PDT by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
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To: Ready4Freddy
Here's one for you:

Gravitas

8 posted on 04/21/2010 1:12:30 PM PDT by FrankR (Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Some straight men need to try to sign up for this baseball team, then sue the sh##### out of them when they refuse to allow them to join.
I’m sure they can call on the ACLU for legal help. (sarc)


9 posted on 04/21/2010 1:12:32 PM PDT by Radagast the Fool ("Mexico-Beirut with tacos!"--Dr. Zoidberg)
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To: Ready4Freddy

The very first sentence had me laughing.


10 posted on 04/21/2010 1:12:33 PM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Every baseball team needs a switch-hitter or two. Or three.

There's a team called that in L.A.

11 posted on 04/21/2010 1:13:01 PM PDT by dragonblustar ("... and if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler!" - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: Ready4Freddy

How do you “prove” you are gay? Is there a test?


12 posted on 04/21/2010 1:13:31 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: ETL

Thanks, I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time.


13 posted on 04/21/2010 1:13:41 PM PDT by cvq3842 (Freedom is worth fighting for.)
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To: Ready4Freddy

I don’t care what people do in private, which is one reason why I find question even having a Gay Olympics. Sounds like fodder for stereotype jokes.

As to these 3 litigants: What do they propose? Tryouts?


14 posted on 04/21/2010 1:13:45 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: Ready4Freddy
...the things that are important to America in 2010.

We've become the Do-Do Bird of nations.

15 posted on 04/21/2010 1:13:51 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Ditto

We have just experienced yet another ....
Close Encounter with the Loony Left
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2464035/posts
[Now past 100 posts.]

And updating Monster Ping
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16 posted on 04/21/2010 1:14:00 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Weakening McCain strengthens our borders, weakens guest worker aka amnesty)
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To: Ready4Freddy

Gives switch hitter a whole new meaning!


17 posted on 04/21/2010 1:14:07 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Non-Sequitur

Hesus Key-rist!
What is the hell is the world coming to? There is a guy at work who’s wife left him. He has two kids. After getting upwards of 45, he can’t find a new girlfreind, so he joins a bi-sexual/gay homo swingers group and all of a sudden he’s now gay. Whatever. Wake up one morning and just be gay.


18 posted on 04/21/2010 1:14:44 PM PDT by Paddy Irish
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To: camerongood210

Either you s* d*
or you do not.

19 posted on 04/21/2010 1:15:06 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Radagast the Fool

They would probably be afraid to “try out” for the team!


20 posted on 04/21/2010 1:15:08 PM PDT by cvq3842 (Freedom is worth fighting for.)
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